QA Engineer (12m Maternity Cover)

V-Nova Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a proactive Senior QA/Test Engineer to ensure the quality and performance of cutting-edge video codec technology. This role involves driving test strategies, collaborating with development teams, and enhancing QA processes. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of software QA experience and a strong understanding of automation. Join a company dedicated to advancing technology across various industries, including media, entertainment, and automotive.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software QA experience, including automation.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas effectively.
• Experience creating comprehensive test plans.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on test functions.
• Execute manual and automated tests for product deliverables.
• Provide ongoing training and support to engineers.

Skills

Automation system platforms and frameworks

Clear written and verbal communication

Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux

Agile development environment

Prioritization and execution of testing tasks

Tools

Python

FFMPEG

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-driven Senior QA/Test Engineer to join V-Nova and help shape the future of cutting‑edge video codec technology. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the quality and performance of our next‑generation encoder solutions.

You’ll have the opportunity to take real ownership – driving test strategy, defining robust QA processes, and collaborating closely with our encoder team to identify, investigate, and report issues. If you thrive in an innovative environment and enjoy working with the latest advancements in video technology, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of multidisciplined team agile team with engineers, technical lead, product and delivery managers, to provide a test function to project teams.
• Work with the team to create test strategies, plans, procedures, and execute manual and automated tests for project and product deliverables to provide assurance that they meet functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Contribute improvement suggestions for V-Nova’s test and quality function and propose improvements to existing test QA test and automation solutions.
• Produce and maintain test solutions (scripts and frameworks) together with equipment and configurations for manual and automated test cases.
• Provide ongoing training and support to the engineers to enable effective and sustained adoption of the test and quality assurance practices.
• Provide clear updates, both verbal and in the form of test reports/summaries to provide project leads a clear status of products/project output under test. Your reports will form support for ‘go no go’ readiness decisions for project completion/product release.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software QA experience including building, instrumenting and using automation system platforms and frameworks.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to stakeholders effectively.
• Use and configuration of Android, iOS, Windows and Linux operating systems as target test platforms.
• Experience working with development teams to create comprehensive test plans for new features and product releases.
• Clear understanding of QA methodologies used within a software testing environment.
• Experience developing script to support testing preferably using Python, but other languages are fine.
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to prioritize and execute testing tasks efficiently at different development stages, aligning with project timelines and objectives while independently addressing and resolving issues found.

Desirable

• Understanding of video and common compression features, particularly video – lossy, lossless, quality metrics, colour spaces.
• Python software development experience
• Understanding of video carriage solutions
• Use of FFMPEG or other video solutions for video encoding/playback
• Understanding of video quality metrics
• Understanding of broadcast video techniques and technology – SDI, HD-SDI

Company Description

V Nova is a London based technology company dedicated to compute aware data formats across video, imaging and AI. The company improves data compression through a large portfolio of innovations built on the use of AI and parallel processing for data, video, imaging and point cloud compression, with applications across many verticals. This work is driven by deep science R&D, supported by more than 1,400 international patents, and by the development of software products that test, validate and continually advance the technology portfolio.V Nova has contributed key IP to the standardization of two video codec formats: MPEG 5 Part 2 LCEVC, which is mandated as part of the DTV + (TV 3.0) standard in Brazil, and SMPTE VC 6 (ST 2117). V Nova has also developed multiple award winning software products to accelerate the adoption of its technologies and enable immediate deployment across TV, media, entertainment, social networks, eCommerce, ad tech, security, aerospace, defense, automotive and gaming.